When you don't have a clear understanding of a problem, you make it a laughing stock. The head of one of the most active environmental organizations in Azerbaijan, Cavid Qara, shared this video.
In the corridor of Lachin, one of the women concerned about ‘environmental protection’ was so engrossed in her speech that she did not even notice how she was choking the bird she was holding in her hand.
At the end of the speech, instead of flying, the strangled bird symbolizing peace falls down like a stone. Of course, the Azerbaijani media presented that part edited.
Cavid Qara, who, for example, held a protest in Baku in the summer of 2021 against the continuous cutting of forests and the long-term leasing of forestland to private owners, regularly writes about the protests in the Lachin Corridor. “It is obvious that the protest of ‘eco-activists’ in Karabakh is a false rumor. People who do not raise the environmental issues in the country have no moral right to protest against the enemy’s environmental actions. These people are not unscrupulous opportunists, they are simply show-runners.”
Baku, falsifying the history of the region, has also distorted the classic image of environmentalists in recent days.
Azerbaijani ‘environmentalists’ are distinguished by natural fur coats, military past, nationalist gestures and political slogans.
J-Christophe Buisson, deputy director of the French magazine Le Figaro, shared this video with the accompanying caption: “Azerbaijani fake activist ‘environmentalist’ shows the gesture of the Turkish ultra-nationalist movement ‘Grey Wolves’, which wants to “finish the 1915 Genocide.”
However, unfortunately, some peacekeepers, giving in to provocations, express a political position. “Inshallah, Karabakh is Azerbaijan.”
And who are these fake environmentalists whom the state bodies of Azerbaijan organized to bring to Lachin Corridor? Examining only the Facebook pages of the people who closed the Lachin Corridor, it becomes clear that almost all of them were financed with the support of the state agency for support of NGOs established by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan in 2021.
Most of their Facebook pages are flooded with photos of the Aliyev family. This is, for example, the user account of Ruhiyye Memmedova, which starts with the image of Mr. and Mrs. Aliyev, and in her user account photo, Heydar Aliyev is already on top.
Taleh Mansurov, who has been in Lachin since December 12, is a member of the ruling Aliyev-led ‘New Azerbaijan’ party. This one is Habil Niftali, who is again the president of the public association supporting the solution of social problems implementing projects funded by the state agency of Azerbaijan. The next environmentalist of Azerbaijan is an Armenian-speaking Azerbaijani ex-military, who presents himself in the pro-government press not as an environmentalist or activist, but as a military expert, Telman Qasimov.
On the Facebook page of the activist calling for peace in the corridor of Lachin, there is a series of photos of the military disrespecting the flag of Armenia and Artsakh, and he has a separate photo with Ramil Safarov published on November 7 of this year.
The international press also writes about the fakeness of Azerbaijani environmentalists.
According to the author of the BBC publication, among the participants of the action are employees of state companies, even employees of Turkish companies. It is noted that there are more serious environmental problems in Azerbaijan.
They are mainly related to oil production. Shahin Rzayev, a famous Azerbaijani journalist and regular participant in non-state projects, is quoted. “I would show these environmentalists what is happening in my native village of Surakhani, where oil is extracted. There is enough material there for five years of study.”
The Berlin-based opposition Meydan TV, for example, states that the Azerbaijanis gathered in the Lachin Corridor are protesting against the exploitation of mines for the first time, when ‘Many investigations have proven that the mining industry of Dashkesan and Gedabek is completely under the control of the Aliyevs to this day, however no activist has protested against it.”
In a conversation with Meydan TV, human rights activist Anar Mamedli warns that Azerbaijan is in the poorest positions not only in terms of human rights, but also in terms of nature protection.
By the way, according to the environmental efficiency index compiled by a research group operating at Yale and Columbia universities, Azerbaijan is not even in the top 100.
It is noteworthy that after 2020, a special permit is needed to visit the territories under the control of Azerbaijan, and the visit is organized by buses provided by the state.
Moreover, during these 2 years, citizens who traveled to these areas without permission were arrested.
All this proves that the persons who appeared in the Lachin corridor are not random people at all and at least cooperate with various state bodies. And the independent journalists who did not serve the interests of the Aliyev clan, who managed to reach the Lachin corridor, were kidnapped yesterday by masked persons.
